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Poetry
KENDRA LIDER-JOHNSON
Kendra Lider-Johnson is a poet based in Harlem, New York City, with a writing-adjacent career in higher education administration and two young children. She is an MFA student in the writing program at Columbia School of the Arts; she primarily writes poetry about family, memory, nature and myth.
LEVIATHAN
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Journal
When I was timeless
I gnashed and spewed
sent the moon
away to call it back
devoured heroes, pulled
music from the bones
of ancient whales. Sirens
adored me with their breasts
and breaths. My turning over
was ceremony, shaking down
ingots and spice, plumes
from tern, merganser.
The plaint of driftwood. Femur
and glass, egg smooth. My torpor
blooms in the green
and claggy deep, some nights
rising to console Orion
and the Bear.
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